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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Mixed Bag CD Blog-Dorian

The physics of music:

NAME: Dorian WrightBLOG NAME: Postmodern BarneyNAME OF CD: Happy Smiling Naked ManNUMBER OF CUTS: 35RUNNING TIME: 79:39COVER ART: A picture of a happy smiling naked man, except for the strategically placed LP coverSONG LIST: On Lefty Brown's page of June 30, though there are also 10 snippets inserted throughhoutALREADY REVIEWED BY: Gordon on June 21; LeftyGENERAL THOUGHTS: Not all of it, but a lot of this disc is jokey. Some of it worked for me (Nigel Planer, Milton Berle’s Yellow Sub), some didn’t (Hulk Hogan), and a lot I didn’t know WHAT to think (Tony Randall, Leonard Nimoy, Brady Bunch, Smurfs). A somewhat uneven disc. THINGS I PARTICULARLY LOVED: The run of covers: G-L-O-R-I-A ("Melvin")/Judy Get Down/Jolene; Snip Snip; Teenage Enema Nurses; The Mystery Date commercialON THE OTHER HAND: The Scooby-Doo joke was WAY too long; Boots was painfulOFFICE FRIENDLY: Not the Butthole Duet, MC Chris, Justin Tranter, and at least two of the unidentified snippets.ONLY VAGUELY RELATED: Killer Pussy was one of the biggest local New Wave bands in Phoenix back in the 80's, I’ve read. Nancy Sinatra was on CBS Sunday Morning recently; she looked and sounded great- THOSE boots were made for walkin’! Dorian kindly sent me his previous effort, the listing for which is somewhere on June 10; though it too was kitschy, it was less weird, so I enjoyed it more.